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Turkey:Earthquake:2003/01/27

Duration	2003/01/27	At least one person is feared dead after an earthquake with a magnitude 6.5 shook the remote and mountainous region of Tunceli in eastern Turkey.
Country or District	Turkey
Name	Earthquake

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Report/Articles OCHA Situation Report No.1 2003/01/27 There was one fatality and two injuries. Government of Greece 2003/01/28 The Foreign Ministry　send €200,000 in Humanitarian aid to Turkey OCHA Situation Report 2003/01/28 One person was killed and seven hurt when a strong earthquake rocked eastern Turkey. hurriyet2003/01/27(local news paper in Turkey) Tunceli'de deprem: 6.5（Turkish） Reuters News2003/01/27 One person died and several were reported injured early on Monday when an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Pulumur, a sparsely populated area in eastern Turkey. CNN News 2003/01/27 One dead in Turkish earthquake

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